Mostly Knitting – Sometimes Theology

  • Colour Lovers

    This post is my contribution to Day 1 in Knitting and Crochet Blog Week 2012 The brief for today’s post is colour, and my relationship with it. If you were to ask me what my favourite colour is, I would probably say some sort of shade between green and blue, or sometimes deep purple. When…

  • Knitting and Crochet Blog week

    Coming soon: I’m trying to write posts on all the topics for Knitting and Crochet Blog Week, that starts tomorrow. Look out for some childhood photos, some ancestral intarsia and plenty more knitting tales. In the mean time I’ve another 19 rounds of ktbl, p1, ktbl, p1, k3, p1 ribbing to do on two socks.…

  • The end of an era and a new start

    Yesterday morning, at approximately 5am, a significant milestone was reached: I finished listening to episode 91 of Cast On. When I started listening to Cast On, I downloaded the most recent series at that point, beginning at episode 92. Then after I reached episode 98, there were no more new episodes for a few months…

  • Driffield Farmers’ Market

    Today I fulfilled a long-standing plan to go to Driffield Farmers’ Market and have a look at the Little Houndales Knits stall. Of course, when I say ‘have a look at’, I really mean ’empty my wallet onto the stall in return for yarn’. Fortunately, I don’t carry a great deal of cash with me.…

  • Not knitting

    Spring is in the air, and I’ve suddenly stopped knitting. I’m not sure why – maybe it is a sign that the current project isn’t working out as I hoped. Hopefully, it isn’t permanent – it has only been three days. In a strange coincidence, I’ve also started having trouble sleeping. Maybe it is the…

  • 3rd Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week

    I think I may well have a shot at this:

  • My harshest critic

    My son has given his verdict on Elektra: Mummy, that’s too much wool. I don’t like it. Tough. I’m wearing it anyway. I note that he was only copying his Father, who questioned the need to wear Elektra with the new cardigan. They are both on my list.

  • Sweet Tomato Eskarina Coriolis

    For the first time since last July, I had no socks on the needles, and not even a second sock to do. This state of affairs began at the end of February and continued until yesterday. Of course, there was a scarf being made with sock-weight yarn, but it didn’t have the portability of a…

  • Elektra – part the second

    Since I last posted, I have mostly been knitting away on Elektra, which is now completed and sitting on the blocking board. The pattern starts with a cast-on of just over 100 stitches, increasing to a total of around 450 per row by the end. The yardage in the pattern was slightly more than in…

  • Lever Knitting

    One of the things that really interests me about knitting is ergonomics. How can I knit more comfortably and more quickly? How can I put the effort in now to protect my hands against future degeneration/arthritis/RSI/whatever else can go wrong? The Yarn Harlot is known as a fairly speedy knitter who also gives talks on…